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I'm sorry but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black men, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and de spise one another. In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls; has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-st epped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ou rselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge as made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel to o little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need ki ndness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all wil l be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in man; cries out for uni versal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despair ing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of me n who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators d ie, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so lo ng as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you and enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Wh o drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder! Don't gi ve yourselves to these unnatural men---machine men with machine minds and machin e hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have a love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it's written "the kingdom of God is within man", not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! You, the people, have the power, the powe r to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the p ower to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventu re. Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give me n a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill their promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they ensla ve the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise! Let us fight to free th e world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and prog ress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite!

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